Bruce,

I think some people first come to truly understand the idea of solpisism when they trudge through Stafford's work. Add some fancy formulas and nifty diagrams, and certain folks mistakenly come away thinking, Stafford has not only invented the philosophy itself, but he has the numbers to prove it!

Probably, most of us in here don't possess the mathematical background those of you who post in this sci.physics.relativity group do. Thanks for the amusing thread.

But, his arrogance is a defense mechanism. Take it easy on the guy. He's a lot more fragile than the online (and probably 'real-life') facade suggests.

-LH

• Identities and Equations for Luis, Dick, Esteemed Writers - carefuluniverse - July 20, 2002 - 05:19 UTC
  • Guilty coinscence? - luis_hamburgh - July 20, 2002 - 17:38 UTC
    • Luis, they haven't answered MY questions either - carefuluniverse - July 21, 2002 - 22:55 UTC
      • Maybe - luis_hamburgh - July 22, 2002 - 11:54 UTC
  • Guilty coinscence? - luis_hamburgh - July 20, 2002 - 17:38 UTC
    • One second - luis_hamburgh - July 20, 2002 - 17:39 UTC
    • Are you a Trinitarian? Three posts where one would do? - carefuluniverse - July 20, 2002 - 18:54 UTC
• Luis it's easier than you think - dolphin - July 20, 2002 - 12:25 UTC
  • No offense, Alan, but... - luis_hamburgh - July 20, 2002 - 17:55 UTC
    • I took his work to.... - dolphin - July 23, 2002 - 04:32 UTC
• Why So Many Cannot See the Merit in Stafford's Work: My Opinion - pmartin - July 21, 2002 - 04:07 UTC
  • The official position of academic science? - bruce - July 21, 2002 - 05:42 UTC
    • It is the body of opinion - pmartin - July 21, 2002 - 17:34 UTC
      • Its just recently that the archive... - bruce - July 21, 2002 - 20:37 UTC
        • Oh, gee...I just said something similar to yours - carefuluniverse - July 21, 2002 - 22:01 UTC
  • oh well - carefuluniverse - July 21, 2002 - 06:05 UTC
  • Apology and explanation - pmartin - July 21, 2002 - 17:59 UTC
    • I's jess pullin' yo lage, massuh ! - carefuluniverse - July 21, 2002 - 21:57 UTC
      • You got my attention with your leg pullin' - pmartin - July 22, 2002 - 00:59 UTC
        • Here's the rest of it - pmartin - July 22, 2002 - 05:04 UTC
          • an exception....a minor one - kantolfir2 - July 22, 2002 - 15:36 UTC
            • Stafford's result in one sentence! - pmartin - July 22, 2002 - 16:48 UTC
              • Better yet, - pmartin - July 22, 2002 - 17:41 UTC
              • You have the gratitude of human, horse, dog, cat, bird & plants - kantolfir2 - July 22, 2002 - 20:44 UTC
              • The law of non-contradiction - dolphin - July 23, 2002 - 04:36 UTC
          • Thank you Paul - dolphin - July 29, 2002 - 07:22 UTC
            • God had a choice - dolphin - July 29, 2002 - 07:49 UTC
              • I think you're right about that, Alan - pmartin - July 29, 2002 - 16:45 UTC
                • Thanks - dolphin - August 3, 2002 - 14:53 UTC
  • Great position paper up to here - yanniru - July 22, 2002 - 13:44 UTC
    • Some explanation is due - pmartin - July 22, 2002 - 17:29 UTC
      • Thank you for a thorough response - yanniru - July 22, 2002 - 22:13 UTC
        • The explanation, Yanniru.... - dolphin - July 23, 2002 - 04:31 UTC
          • That's not mathematics - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 15:08 UTC
            • Traffic jams were analogies - dolphin - July 28, 2002 - 01:09 UTC
        • It doesn't happen!!! - doctordick - July 24, 2002 - 13:55 UTC
          • Will you agree that FP cannot be infinite - yanniru - July 24, 2002 - 16:55 UTC
            • Of course (nt)! - doctordick - July 24, 2002 - 17:23 UTC
              • Then FP cannot contain non-zero delta functions - yanniru - July 24, 2002 - 21:08 UTC
                • Again, you are a complete idiot!! - doctordick - July 25, 2002 - 00:20 UTC
                  • Trying to understand - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 14:14 UTC
                    • Have you had any math at all? - doctordick - July 25, 2002 - 14:27 UTC
                      • If so, then you derive the algorithm for Psi from the region of - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 20:29 UTC
                        • invalid data - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 20:30 UTC
                      • Summary for the holophysicist - yanniru - July 26, 2002 - 01:02 UTC
                        • Maybe its a matter of perspective - dolphin - July 28, 2002 - 01:30 UTC
                          • He discovered that the laws of physics - yanniru - July 28, 2002 - 12:57 UTC
                            • Invalid data? - dolphin - July 29, 2002 - 02:54 UTC
                              • Physics is constrained by experiments - yanniru - July 29, 2002 - 14:21 UTC
                                • The laws of definition - dolphin - August 3, 2002 - 15:24 UTC
                        • Think just a little once! - doctordick - July 29, 2002 - 14:46 UTC
                          • Trouble with your semantics - yanniru - July 29, 2002 - 20:51 UTC
    • Structure between delta-function perspectives - dolphin - July 23, 2002 - 04:26 UTC
      • Zeroes always add up to zero - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 15:09 UTC
        • If you have two cases where Delta Funct. is 0, that's 2 cases - carefuluniverse - July 23, 2002 - 19:49 UTC
          • Thanks - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 20:24 UTC
            • The point is this applies to the issue we were all discussing - carefuluniverse - July 24, 2002 - 17:25 UTC
              • But I do not understand it - yanniru - July 24, 2002 - 21:09 UTC
                • I have seen a picture of Paul Dirac, don't know any Delta funct. - kantolfir2 - July 25, 2002 - 03:04 UTC
                  • That's argument by metaphor - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 13:52 UTC
                    • No, I wasn't arguing... I suggest layers of physics are missing - carefuluniverse - July 25, 2002 - 15:21 UTC
                      • Please tell me you are not kantolfir2 - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 20:31 UTC
                        • What tifferrende does it make? - carefuluniverse - July 26, 2002 - 01:47 UTC
                        • Okay...you are not kantolfir2 - kantolfir2 - July 28, 2002 - 16:51 UTC
                          • Goedel's incompleteness theorem applies - yanniru - July 29, 2002 - 14:30 UTC
                            • Horsepuckey...it does not - kantolfir2 - July 29, 2002 - 16:55 UTC
                              • Where do you live? - yanniru - July 29, 2002 - 20:52 UTC
        • Zeroes can be relative and quantized - dolphin - July 28, 2002 - 01:33 UTC
          • But it's not science - yanniru - July 29, 2002 - 21:01 UTC
            • To find out if something "is science" do we ask Yanniru? - kantolfir2 - July 30, 2002 - 04:55 UTC
              • You should know what science is - yanniru - July 30, 2002 - 13:58 UTC
                • You fancy yourself a mindreader? - kantolfir2 - July 31, 2002 - 02:30 UTC
                  • It's what you should know - yanniru - July 31, 2002 - 14:07 UTC
  • Lottery - luis_hamburgh - July 22, 2002 - 22:37 UTC
    • But Luis, dear Luis, what about the question? - kantolfir2 - July 23, 2002 - 01:16 UTC
      • Stafford makes this site great - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 15:15 UTC
        • I think your paper will come up - carefuluniverse - July 23, 2002 - 19:52 UTC
      • You are a mere Troll - luis_hamburgh - July 23, 2002 - 16:07 UTC
        • I don't know your real name...how can I argue - carefuluniverse - July 23, 2002 - 16:51 UTC
          • Because that's what friends do... - luis_hamburgh - July 23, 2002 - 18:30 UTC
            • I admit I was being cryptic...good call - carefuluniverse - July 23, 2002 - 19:46 UTC
    • Apology, if necessary - pmartin - July 26, 2002 - 16:24 UTC